UFCW Contract Vote This Week

LOS ANGELES — Members of seven Southern California locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union are set to vote this Friday, Aug. 19, on whatever contract offer is on the table on Wednesday, the last day on which negotiations are scheduled. The employers did not respond last week to the union's plans to take a vote. However, they issued a press release a day later outlining a new health care

LOS ANGELES — Members of seven Southern California locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union are set to vote this Friday, Aug. 19, on whatever contract offer is on the table on Wednesday, the last day on which negotiations are scheduled.

The employers did not respond last week to the union's plans to take a vote. However, they issued a press release a day later outlining a new health care proposal “[that] should help the parties move closer to reaching an agreement